Top ten famous fashion designers in the United States of America

A hotspot of fashion designing, America has been the country of some of the most famous fashion designers in the last few decades. Here is a list of top ten US fashion designers working in the United States of America who brought the turnaround in US fashion of late. Keep reading!

A list of top ten fashion designers in USA is never an easy thing to prepare. First, fashion is said to be the most fluctuating thing in the world and so is the popularity and reputation of specific fashion schools and fashion designers. Secondly, over the last few decades, the United States of America has seen a considerable number of prominent American fashion designers who have really added new parameters to US fashion. Here we have tried to make a list of top ten most famous American fashion designers. The ranking of the top ten US fashion designers here are based upon their reception or popularity in the fashion world, the significance of their works as contextualized and juxtaposed to the growth of US fashion industry in the last few decades, and of course their merit that have already won the a number of accolades.

Take a look here at those icons of the American fashion designing industry whom we have selected as the top ten fashion designers of America.

Top ten American fashion designers in USA

Many votes will be unanimously cast for Marc Jacobs perhaps as the best fashion designer in USA of the present times. With a career spanning from roughly 1980s to present, he has been a part of the most prestigeous labels in the fashion industry such as Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and his own label Marc Jacobs. Currently residing in Paris, he had joined the Parsons when he was fifteen releasing his first collection of hand-knit sweaters for Rueben Thomas Inc.

The name Calvin Klien perhaps needs no introduction. Whenever you hear the name Calvin Klien you know that you are talking about fashion. One of the most prestigious fashion designers of the United States of America, Calvin Klien started off his career early. He was one of the pioneers of fashion in USA since the 1950s. Calvin Klien Designs exist for both men and women and they have the unique Klein flavor in them.

Oscar de la Renta is yet another important name in the world of fashion designing since the 1960s. He is especially famous for his red carpet gowns for the celebrities. Even though he originated from the Dominican Republic, he is firmly rooted to the USA. Oscar de la Renta is now respected as one of the best fashion designers in the United States as well as across the globe.

Rick Owens drew the attention of the fashion world back when one of his leather jackets got featured in the cover of Vogue magazine. Nevertheless, he has been running under his own label since 1994 only. The lad from Porterville, California had a long walk down the line and no wonder it paid off and now he is counted among the most famous fashion designers in United States of America.

Starting out in 1986, Tom Ford is one of the most prominent fashion designers of United States of America nowadays. Especially known for his hand in the rennovation of the Gucci fashion house, he had worked in American fashion houses for nearly four years. Since the 1990 when Ford joined the house to the time when he left in 2004, the house had grown from near bankruptcy to about $10 Billion.

Starting off in the 1960s as the assistant of Anne Klein, Donna Karan gradually emerged as one of the pioneers of fashion designing in USA as well as across the world. She is the founder of the famous fashion house Donna Karan New York famously known as DKNY. The Donna Karan New York fashion house includes lines of garments, fragrances for both men and women.

Michael Bastian, throughout his career in fashion designing in USA, was associated with famous brands and names such as the Tiffany n Co., Polo Ralph Lauren, and he is one of the most celebrated fashion designers in North America with over fifty retail locations spread along the Middle East and Europe as well. Running under various labels and collaborations, Michael Bastian is better than ever and one of the hottest fashion designers in America.

Starting off at the age of nineteen, Michael Kors is regarded as one of the most talented fashion designers of United States of America at present. Especially famous for his designs for women sportswear, he is the best known for introduction of a huge line of women's ready-to-wear garments. Apart from bein associated with names like Celine (France), he has succesfully launched his own label titled Michael Kors.

The name of Alexandre Wang is in the limelight these days with his reputation as one of the newest fashion designers of United States of America. This young and new generation American fashion designer has already been awarded with many awards in the fashion world including the CDFA Fashion Fund Award, Swiss Textiles Award, and Swarovski Womenswear Designer of the Year and is currently running under the label of his own name.

Among the most renowned fashion designers of United States of America, John Varvatos has been associated with the Ralph Lauren fashion house and is renowned especially for the successful branding of the Polo Jeans company and all the brands of Polo Ralph Lauren. Apart from these, he has his own label which sports one of the finest collections in United States.

You may or may not agree with the ranking of top ten US fashion designers as has provided here, and you may also say we have missed out a few. If you do not agree with us, feel free to post your list of top ten fashion US designers as a response below!

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